This issue was guest edited by Corey Keller.
From 2003 to 2021, Curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).
Currently adjunct professor in the photography program at California College of the Arts (CCA).
Photographers:
Sam Zalutsky [USA], Nicole White [USA], Seunggu Kim [South Korea], Nikos Staikoglou [Greece], Tony Chirinos [USA], Daniel Aros-Aguilar [Colombia/USA], Jenny Sampson [USA], Masato Ninomiya [Japan], Emily Wall [USA], Laidric Stevenson [USA], Josh Slan [Canada], Sarah Malakoff [USA]
Reincarnation (26 photos) : This personal photo story is an ongoing series, which started in 2010. These photos are at my parents’ house and surrounding countryside the Izu peninsula. My father said, “When I retire, I’d like to spend the rest of my life in the Izu peninsula”. In 2010, my father bought a house in the Izu peninsula. Mountain-burning on the Mt. Omuro is one of the events of the Izu peninsula. It will be carried out in February every year for refreshment of grasses. I think it to be reincarnation (A never ending cycle of life). It is the last place that my parents live. *The paper airplane that my father handed to my mother is the contract sheet of this house.
“You keep that,” said my dad. It was a copper medal commemorating the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which were held before I was born. He told me that the start of shinkansen rail serviceswas timed to coincide with the Games, and thatsales of the colour TV sets that replaced black and white ones went through the roof. The second Tokyo Olympics was planned to take place56 years after the first, in 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the start of the year, and the Games were rescheduled for 2021. The global coronaviruscrisis remained unresolved, however, and cities in Europe and America went into lockdown. In Japan, where the law does not allow lockdowns, states of emergency were repeatedly declared in the major cities. In April 2021, Tachikawa Sougo General Hospital, a medical facility in one ofTokyo’ssuburbs, postedmessages in its windows warning that it was at the limit of its capacity to treat patients and calling for the Olympics to be cancelled. At present, with three months to go before the Games are due to start, the majority of Japanese citizens are still unvaccinated, while the Japanese government’s line is that the Olympics will go ahead.
This short documentary series is intended to allow us in future to look back on the once-in-a-lifetime year of the planned Tokyo Olympics.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
These photographs are part of “Borderland”, one of my photo archive projects. I live in the city of Sagamihara (Kanagawa Prefecture), where the US ArmySagami General Depot is situated. In 2014, 17 of the depot’s total 214.4 hectares were returned to Japan. A local pro soccer team isplanning to relocate its home stadium to this area.There are also plans to constructan extension of the Odakyu Tama railway line anda new station underground here. What this currently unused site will look like in the future is very hard to imagine. Recording this landscape as it changes will require a long (10-year) time-frame.Since the end of the War in 1945, Kanagawa Prefecture seems to have experienced an influx of American culture, as the US Army’s presence has brought jazz, surfing, surf music, movies, hamburgers, entertainment, art and the like to Shonan coast and even thecentral area of the prefecture where I live.
Translated by Michael Normoyle and Yoshiko Furuhashi at M&Y Translations (Birmingham, UK)
America in Kanagawa | There are dotted with US naval facilities in Kanagawa where I live. Of these US Radio Transmitting Facility Kamiseya in the suburbs of Yokohama was drawn off and the land was returned in 2015. The site area was 242ha. Cherry blossoms were planted along the surrounding highways as a sign of friendship. This part of the square opened to the public during the first week of April, despite the former border fence, the crossing is still prohibited. It is planned to attract an International Horticultural Exhibition which will be held in 2026, on the site of this US naval facility. After that, there is a plan to build a big theme park. The purpose of this photo series is to record one part of the history of Japan and the history of Kanagawa where the landscape will soon be reborn. This series is an ongoing project, which started in April 2019
追記: 再開発計画には周辺の桜並木を伐採するプランも含められているようです。そして、将来はテーマパーク建設も計画されているようですが、この敷地には日本の国鳥キジが多数生息しています。もうひとつ、盗難に遭うのか英語標識が徐々に姿を消しています。「Borderland」にその前後の光景を追加したように、上記一枚目の「DWI (Driving While Intoxicated)＝飲酒運転禁止」の標識は、2021年の時点ですでに存在しません。
My photo series ‘Wintertag’ was featured on ‘of the land & us’ (Inspiration, Places). Thank you to Ameena Rojee (Founder/Editor. Croydon, UK) for featuring my work.
イングランドのof the land & usにWintertagシリーズが掲載されました。of the land & usオフィシャルサイト上、インタビューとインスピレーションの二つの構成となっていて自分は後者です。よろしくお願いします。
*2021年、of the land & usはBlack Riverと名称を改め、サイト構成その他が変更されました。
